Bayou Café will expand into Malta this summer as its founder embraces nightlife outside Albany and searches for a way back to his Louisiana-style business roots. Ralph Spillenger opened Bayou Café in Glenville in the late 1990s and a sister site in Albany in 2001. But just last year, he left Albany in a bit of a huff, disgruntled after his bar Jillian’s closed down after 13 years on North Pearl Street. Downtown Albany had ...

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